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Sunday, February 5, 2017

Re: [Yasmin_discussions] How to train STEAM teams

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For a long time I have used multi-discipline group projects for this. Always important to teach something about team working as a preliminary and to take an active role in team selection - not just a collection of friends but a balanced set of skills and interests. The information below is a bit old so some URL links no longer work but the relevant things are there.

Both of the examples below come from masters courses that allowed any discipline to enroll, so the working together across disciplines was easy to include as a major feature.

(1) In a course on interactive art the project report is specified here:
http://research.it.uts.edu.au/creative/eae/intart/reports.htmThe course specification said:
"When the project is undertaken in a group, for the second assessment, students will be assessed as a team, where each member of the team will receive the same mark for the assignment, plus an individual mark determined by your tutor taking your individual report on the work into account. If you have trouble with the operation of your group, ask the Subject coordinator for advice (preferably ask as a group). If some of the group feels that other member(s) are not contributing, the tutor should be informed and a group meeting held to produce a solution."

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